Azure DevOps docs: What's new for August 1 - August 31, 2020
Welcome to what's new in the Azure DevOps docs from August 1, 2020 through August 31, 2020. This article lists some of the major changes to docs during this period.
Administration
Updated articles
- Add users and manage access in Azure DevOps
- About permissions and groups - Updated table
- Permissions, users, and groups in Azure DevOps
Azure Boards
New articles
Updated articles
- Fix display, reordering, and nesting issues
- Query by assignment or workflow changes
- Customize your backlogs or boards (Inheritance process)
- About process customization and inherited processes
- How workflow states and state categories are used in Backlogs and Boards
- Customize the workflow (Inheritance process)
Azure DevOps Reporting and Analytics service
New articles
- Test duration trend sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Failed tests sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Flaky tests sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Pass rate trend of a test sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Test duration sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Test summary sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
- Test summary trend sample report - Added documentation for Test Analytics in pipelines
Updated articles
Azure Pipelines
New articles
- Deploy from multiple branches using Azure Pipelines - Multiple branches deployment
Updated articles
- Azure virtual machine scale set agents
- Canary deployment strategy for Kubernetes deployments - Canary update
- Restore NuGet packages in Azure Pipelines - Restore NuGet packages
- Set retention policies for builds, tests, and releases - Retention policies update
- Expressions - Update dependencies/stageDependencies
- Release pipelines
- Check out multiple repositories in your pipeline - Multi-repo checkout content performance improvements
- Install SSH Key task
Azure Repos
Updated articles
Developer resources
New articles
Updated articles
- Add a build or release task - Add build task
- Service endpoint authentication schemes
User guide
Updated articles
Archived content
- Microsoft Project field mapping
- Configure features after an upgrade (and other manual upgrade articles)
GitHub issue content updates
Thank you for your feedback on our documentation. This month we made updates to our content to address the following GitHub issues.
- Scale Set Agents Example is Incorrect #9180
- The table under Events is missing an indent, argument is listed as an event #9158
- Typo ".Net" → ".NET" #9154
- MochaDone in the _suite.ts file is incorrect, should be Mocha.Done #9143
- Confuse examples #9136
- parameter secret causes YAML parsing error. #9111
- Add clarifying statement that "Author test cases using a grid-like view" applies to Test Runner window #9096
- Type: Direction Instead of Directory #9083
- Need some additional specific steps #9074
- Wrong Image #9067
- Document describes a feature which is not finished #9059
- The difference between
pipelineandsourceis not clear. #9058 - A little more guidance needed #9057
- Word difference between azure devops and docs #9053
- stageDependencies example is incorrect #9050
- PowerShell sessions in Pipeline have a limited scope. Please explain this and be explicit #9038
- "You can specify multiple values, or separate values with commas" is misleading #9032
- You should note that removed .order files get recreated #8966
- The scopes are not fully listed. #8914
- Prerequisites - Global Admin isn't required, lower privilege roles will allow for the creation of users. #8886
- Last block of YAML is invalid #8852
- Azure DevOps .NET SDK API Reference browser link contains no info about the libraries on this page. #8724
- misleading categorization - azure devops server 2019 does not support parameters #8677
- Incorrect link in Remarks #8621
- Need Example for setting Secret Variables tu use in bash script #8532
- Code sample need more clarity #8493
- Need more information on how to get the fully-qualified Id of Marketplace tasks #8483
- Is
pipeline.startTimein UTC? #8482 - env property not documented #8477
- vso.features and vso.features_write and vso.analytics #8443
- stageDependencies #8366
- SSH fingerprints inconsistent #7726
- If condition with variable missing on template conditions page #7696
- Better (detailed) description of custom conditions #7676
- Git for Windows OpenSSH8.2p1 update affects Azure DevOps Server 2019 #7519
- Whole
Permanently ignore changes to a filepart is illusory solution #7427 - Missing mandatory hostName #7401
- lack of documentation about 'Completion options' of "Automatically include reviewers" #6088
- Doc: Not clear how to set up values for require inputs #5327
- Actual YAML example #5220
- Add instruction on how to test SSH connection #4513
- Enforce a merge strategy Section Need Updates to reflect Sprint 150's work #3936
- Is it possible to exclude a tagged commit from triggering a build? #3862
- Example: Where is that New Method? #3066
- Branch policy triggers missing section about 'Path Filters' #1521
Community contributors
The following people contributed to the Azure DevOps docs during this period. Thank you! Learn how to contribute by following the links under "Get involved" in the what's new landing page.
- JohyPark - Joohyung Park (2)
- Anduin2017 - Anduin Xue (1)
- artbegolli - Art Begolli (1)
- devlead - Mattias Karlsson (1)
- erichmusick - Erich Musick (1)
- FlorisDevreese - Floris Devreese (1)
- focusonmx - Yujin Lee (1)
- gamcmaho - Gary McMahon (1)
- hyoshioka0128 - Hiroshi Yoshioka (1)
- kim3278 (1)
- kyleburnsdev - Kyle Burns (1)
- LucaBlackDragon - Luca Nardi (1)
- mderriey - Mickaël Derriey (1)
- michha - Michael (1)
- milbrandt - Volker Milbrandt (1)
- mrcaron - Michael Caron (1)
- neilmendum - Neil Mendum (1)
- papagala (1)
- pellejacobs - Pelle Jacobs (1)
- phillipsj - Jamie Phillips (1)
- radujipa - Radu Jipa (1)
- remcoeissing - Remco Eissing (1)
- rylev - Ryan Levick (1)
- SaebAmini - Saeb Amini (1)
- secretGeek - Leon Bambrick (1)
- steven-hyland - Steven Hyland (1)
- stzhmsft (1)
- theBNT (1)
- wesleycamargo - Wesley Camargo (1)
- wooooooood (1)